Neutron Stars Could be Capturing Primordial Black Holes
Updated: 2024-04-26 20:48:12
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in This magnetar is a highly magnetized neutron star . This artist's illustration shows an outburst from a magnetar . Neutron stars that spin rapidly and give out radiation are called pulsars , and specific pulsars are rare in the core of the Milky Way . Credit : NASA JPL-CalTech Posted on April 26, 2024 April 26, 2024 by Carolyn Collins Petersen Neutron Stars Could be Capturing Primordial Black Holes The Milky Way has a missing pulsar problem in its core . Astronomers have tried to explain this for years . One of the more interesting ideas comes from a team of astronomers in Europe and invokes dark matter , neutron stars , and primordial black holes PBHs Astronomer Roberto
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in This research published in Nature is the first direct confirmation that supermassive black holes are capable of shutting down galaxies Posted on April 26, 2024 April 26, 2024 by Mark Thompson Black Holes Can Halt Star Formation in Massive Galaxies Itâ s difficult to actually visualise a universe that is changing . Things tend to happen at snails pace albeit with the odd exception . Take the formation of galaxies growing in the early universe . Their immense gravitational field would suck in dust and gas from the local vicinity creating vast collections of stars . In the very centre of these young galaxies , supermassive blackholes would reside turning the galaxy into
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in Gravitational Wave science holds great potential that scientists are eager to develop . Is a gravitational wave observatory on the Moon the way forward NASA Goddard . LRO Posted on April 25, 2024 April 25, 2024 by Evan Gough Here’s Why We Should Put a Gravitational Wave Observatory on the Moon Scientists detected the first long-predicted gravitational wave in 2015, and since then , researchers have been hungering for better detectors . But the Earth is warm and seismically noisy , and that will always limit the effectiveness of Earth-based detectors . Is the Moon the right place for a new gravitational wave observatory It might be . Sending telescopes into space worked well ,